Leahy

[ley-hee]

noun

1. William Daniel, 1875–1959, U.S. admiral and diplomat.

Example Sentences

Notre Dame’s Frank Leahy aggressively recruited players, used deceptive offensive-line schemes and possibly encouraged phony injuries to win an extra timeout.

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Leahy became such an outlaw in college-football circles that Army and other gridiron powers of the 1940s and ’50s cut off scheduling his teams.

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The resentment against Leahy was so strong that it took 13 years for him to be voted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

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Then again, as Ivan Maisel recounts in “American Coach,” Leahy developed the fabled Seven Blocks of Granite offensive line as an assistant coach at Fordham, took Boston College to its greatest heights of football achievement, and became Notre Dame’s head coach in 1941 at age 32.

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When he retired after the 1953 season, Leahy had the second-best record in the history of college football, trailing only Knute Rockne, his forebear at Notre Dame.

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